Using Open-Source Code Can Save You Half a Million Dollars–but Do It Carefully Software code that’s free? It’s yours for the taking, as long as you understand the nuances of this generous ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse ...

Open source software has fewer defects on average than proprietary code does, according to new data from Coverity.

GitHub will store all of its public open source code in an Arctic vault It should be safe for 1,000 years.

Without a detailed accounting of open-source code running within their software, companies have no way to monitor software policies, licenses, vulnerabilities, and versions. That means IT departments ...

Open-source code in public repositories might contain malware or unintentional vulnerabilities. Here's how to best manage finding and mitigating potential problems.

A study of how 31 popular open source code libraries were downloaded over the past 12 months found that more than a third of the 1,261 versions of these libraries had a known vulnerability and ...

Sun Microsystems released an open-source code version of its StarOffice productivity suite, as promised, but a deluge of download requests overloaded the servers hosting the Web site containing ...